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Agfa-Gevaert of Belgium has acquired ProImage, an Israeli company billing $6.7 million in the development of browser-based digital workflow solutions for the printing and newspaper industries.

Global DocuGraphix Inc., a document management and graphics services company based in Chicago, has acquired National Graphics Company, a Denver-based print distributorship that provides some 300 customers with business forms, forms management, envelopes, storage and distribution, promotional products, commercial printing, printed binders, and e-commerce solutions.

Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Mo., has acquired Webco Printing, Omaha, Neb. Walsworth, which calls itself the world's largest independently owned yearbook printer and bills more than $100 million in the sales of yearbooks, books, and catalogs, says the purchase expands its capacity by $35 million.

Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., reported that revenues for the quarter ending July 31 were $403.7 million, up 27% from the period a year earlier, while net income rose 62%, to $104.5 million. Officials attributed the large gains to continued momentum for Creative Suite and Acrobat products.

Avery Dennison, Pasadena, Calif., is forming a new business unit dedicated to the manufacture and marketing of low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags. The division will market these items to the company's own label converter customers.

Schawk, Inc., a brand imaging solutions specialist based in Des Plaines, Ill., has opened a new facility in Shenzhen, China, where it will offer consultative services focusing on the technical specifications required to ensure high print quality and color consistency for offset, flexography, roto-gravure, and screen print packaging and point-of-sale workflows.

Transcontinental Printing Inc., Montreal, posted revenues of $502 million for the quarter ending July 31, up 16% over the same quarter a year earlier. Operating income rose 21%, to $85 million, while net earnings rose 24%, to $35 million. The company attributes the growth to the successful integration of companies it acquired early in the year, including the printer and publisher Optipress and direct marketer CC3.

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